Sometimes someone fails to get max value for their strong hand. Sometimes no one wants to pay, but other times nuts has someone walking off with a small pot and leaves you scratching your head. This thread is for those times when someone just fails to get the money in.
I’ll start things off with this
Hero turns nut flush and checks back the button on BOTH TURN AND RIVER! I had to watch it three times to believe it, thinking that I missed something. I’m still wondering if I missed something here. In fact when I saw the hand live I thought that it was weird that he rivered a nut flush and didn’t bet the button. Only on the replay did I realize that he had actually hit on the turn. Even worse!
He can’t lose here. There is no pair on the board and there is no straight-flush. He has the smallest stack of anyone left to act. It’s a huge chance to get some chips in a 4-way pot. SOMEONE is going to call a reasonably sized bet.
Out-of-position I might slow play that turn, maybe maybe not, but with the button, the turn is the last chance to get draws to call. There is nothing to gain by checking here. Either way, checking back the river has to be 0%.
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Not just the short stack flushie. K2 had 2 pair. One would think top 2 pair would at least make a small value bet on the river.
I thought a possibility could be, was that there was a all in, and that they were playing that way on the bubble, to knock a all in out. But the blinds were 150/300 well before bubble point.
Only other things I could think of was that maybe all in was a very good player that they were trying to get rid of. But that’s not it.
I think what was it, is that they have seen, been taught, etc, that when there is a all in they check it down to knock the player out, and they were incorrectly applying that in a bad spot to do that.
Also I don’t think the players were in paying attention, being observant mode, werent seeing, and were just quickly checking it down, no matter what they had. and didnt realize what they had, etc.
That’s the only way they could possibly fail to bet top 2 pair and a flush.
Its either that or they are the newest or worst players.
Agree, but at least I can understand his reasoning with hearts all over the table. With 2-pair in that spot with all of that checking, I would probably toss a decent value bet out on that river. What would I have to lose except that value bet? But at least there is logic to his (lack of) action.
But checking back nut flush from the button makes no sense at all. Betting here has nothing to lose and everything to gain.
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This one is questionable.
Hero flops open-ended straight-flush and slow play checks it (I guess he;s playing opossum here : P). It checks back. Then it comes in on the turn. Turn bet looks good. Then gets bet into small on river and comes overtop 10.5x! Not too surprisingly a fold. If you really think that Villain has something here I guess such a huge river bet is okay but what are the chances that weak Villain has A-rag here (pretty big).
First, if we flop THAT much equity, we have to start building a pot. Not only that, but a bigger pot on turn allows us to bet a more normal 1/3rd on turn rather than 60% and risk a fold. Second, 3x raise on river almost certainly gets a call here.
This isn’t the worst one that I’ve ever seen but I think they could have gotten more.
wtf?
Flops a boat and checks two streets??
Hand
Flops trips, checks, turns quads, checks. Overbets river, lucky to get 1 call from rivered FH.
Watched this one a few times.
Heads up, limp pot, Hero in position. Checks back weak pair on flop, cool. Checks back trips on turn, umm, ok. Bets quads for pot on river, too late bro. (shakes head) Enjoy your 2bb pot (of which 1bb was yours).